Except for one interesting detail set by the DoD: seniority between members of the same paygrade in the services is set by Date of Rank/Rate, regardless if one’s own service considers you to be an NCO.
Yet another stupidity from our leadership.
OTA3 (STG3), US Navy 1994-1997
Army 1985 to 2006 retired SFC/E-7
AH-1 and OH-58 helicopter crewchief
Navy, MM3(SW) - active duty 1989-1994. Served, after training, on USS Virginia CGN 38.
USS San Juan (SSN 751)
[plus one patrol on the USS Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN 631) as a midshipman]
After my JO tour on the San Juan, I ended up teaching for the rest of my active duty time in service.
Cool. My brother was an A-ganger on the Boise and the Tuscon, where he also was a plankowner.
Hmmm, rereading my post may have sounded like I was looking down on one type of Air Force officer. I was just asking out of curiousity 
Interesting definition of the term plankowner
1LT/O-2, USAR, Engineer platoon leader/training officer 1986-92
United States Navy, 1984-1990.
Started as a YN in VF-211 (an F-14 squadron stationed on the USS Kitty Hawk) and then changed jobs to Navy Journalist (JO).
USAF Capt (O-3) 1981 - 1989
Ground Forward Air Controller / Air FAC O-2 pilot
F-16 pilot
Royal Signals then Special Forces.
Bird dog, huh. We used to use a commercial SW radio to pick those guys up in VN, talking to the warbirds, very entertaining. Have you read “Bat 21”?
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My Dad was a plankowner on the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, DD-850, commissioned her near the end of WWII and made the shakedown cruise w/ a stop in Havanna.
I have a stainless steel cigar ash tray that he “liberated” from the wardroom.
Navy CTM1, 1972 - 1978
Cool link, Monty. I was watching Letters from Iwo Jima last week and – knowing zilch about WWII IJA insignia – was puzzling over the collar tabs of the various people portrayed. The site is being bookmarked.
Spec4 in the Spearcatcher Service. In case of enemy attack, we’re hostages.
(Stole it from Woody Allen)
I flew a D-9 for about three years. Also dropped a theodolite, two total stations, and a couple of digging permits onto bases that didn’t know we were even coming.
Tripler
So yeah, not all of us wait to turn keys.
I’m a P-250 pilot, myself. Trained on the Peri-Jet. I’ve downed a few GU-11s in my day.
Yeah. It was OK IMHO. “A lonely kind of war” is a much better story of FAC as I saw it.
Active Army 2005-present.
I’ll check it out, thanks. I guess that job is pretty much history, w/ the new drones and other advances.